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Marvell jumps as Nvidia invests $2B; companies announce strategic partnership
Marvell Technology (MRVL) shares jumped more than 10% in premarket trading on Tuesday after Nvidia (NVDA) announced it was investing $2B into the company. The two companies also unveiled a strategic partnership to connect Marvell to the Nvidia AI factory and AI-RAN ecosystem through Nvidia's NVLink Fusion.
Nvidia shares rose 1.3% in premarket trading.
Marvell will provide custom AI accelerators, or XPUs, and NVLink Fusion-compatible scale-up networking, while Nvidia will offer up its Vera CPU, ConnectX NICs, Bluefield DPUs, NVLink interconnect and Spectrum-X switches, and rack-scale AI compute, the companies said in a statement.
In addition, the two companies will work together on telecom networks and bring artificial intelligence infrastructure to them, offering Nvidia Aerial AI-RAN for 5G and 6G, and advanced world-class networking for AI.
“The inference inflection has arrived. Token generation demand is surging, and the world is racing to build AI factories,” said Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang. “Together with Marvell, we are enabling customers to leverage NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure ecosystem and scale to build specialized AI compute.”
“Our expanded partnership with NVIDIA reflects the growing importance of high-speed connectivity, optical interconnect and accelerated infrastructure in scaling AI,” Marvell CEO and Chairman Matt Murphy added. “By connecting Marvell’s leadership in high-performance analog, optical DSP, silicon photonics and custom silicon to NVIDIA’s expanding AI ecosystem through NVLink Fusion, we are enabling customers to build scalable, efficient AI infrastructure.”
The $2B investment is Nvidia's third investment of that size this month, having announced deals with Lumentum (LITE) and Coherent (COHR) previously.